The SPG meetings are held at the American Center for Physics, College Park, MD which is located near the intersection of River Road and Kenilworth Ave. It is easily accessible by either car or Metro.
The Uranium Club
Miriam E. Hiebert - October 18th 2023
Dragonfly: Flights of Exploration on an Exotic Ocean World
Melissa Trainer - May 18, 2023
Coronal Mass Ejections and Solar Gamma-ray Emission
Nat Gopalswamy - April 19, 2023
Radio Astronomy
Rich Colarco - February 15, 2023
DART: Double Asteroid Redirection Test
Andrew Cheng - January 18, 2023
Galileo and the Science Deniers
Mario Livio - December 21, 2022
Earth's co-evolving geosphere and biosphere: A mineral evolution perspective
Robert M. Hazen - November 16, 2022
Stochastic Computational Electrostatics and Applications: Computing Capacitance
Michael Mascagni - October 19, 2022
Asteroids: Stepping Stones to the Future of Space Exploration
Michael C.F. Bazzocchi - September 28, 2022
Virtual Tour of NASA Wallops Flight Facility Operations
Michael Hitch - August 17, 2022
The Nature of Time
Harold Williams - June 15, 2022
Quantum Hall Array Structures Apply Quantized Resistance in the Wider World
Randolph “Rand” Elmquist - May 18, 2022
The Murrow Boys – News Broadcasting During WWII
Brian Belanger - April 19, 2022
Modeling Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics by Blending Ideas from Machine Learning and Physics
Garegin Papoian - March 16, 2022
The Exploration of the Moon and then onto Mars
Jim Green - February 16, 2022
Magnetic Reconnection and Particle Acceleration in Space and Astrophysical Systems
James Drake - January 19, 2022
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The Planning Group makes the arrangements and plans for the SPG's future events. It is an informal group that is open to any interested party. In practice, about 12 people have consistently participated. It is chaired by its founder, Richard Strombotne. It meets on the first Wednesday of the month in the fourth floor conference room at the American Center for Physics, College Park, Maryland.